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- Herausgeber: novum pro Verlag
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
The skeleton is a contemporary lifetime, from boyhood to old age. Organs are represented by particular events, personal, national and global – non-experience of an earthquake, loss and change in libraries, the first ascent of Everest, holidays in Cornwall and Yorkshire, Brexit and the invasion of the Ukraine - and the onward creep of infirmity at head and feet. Months, seasons and their various characteristic weather and activities contribute the flesh and muscles; and a variety of formats – rhymes in quatrains, haiku, tanka and multiple tanka, sestina and rondeau redouble, and even totally free verse – demonstrate moods and movements among which to play with the sounds and ambiguities of words.
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Contents
Imprint 3
Acknowledgements 4
Introduction 5
Earthquake in Peterborough 7
The Library Burned to the Ground 8
How They Brought the Good News 9
Waterfall, Betws-y-Coed 10
The Dance Class 11
Weather for Ducks 12
Flawed Diamond 13
The Teacher 14
February 15
Mystery 16
Chilled 17
Orpheus and Eurydice 18
My Beautiful Boy 19
Changeable, Ain’t It? 20
Spring 21
Ukraine, 5th March, 2022 22
Orographia 23
The Dresser Drawer 24
More or Less? 25
Weather 26
Summer 27
Yorkshire Morning 29
Jury Rigged 30
Senses 31
The Pomegranate Hotel(Hotel Garanat, Granada, Andalucia)32
The Passage of Time 33
Cornish Idyll 34
The Skipper’s Nightmare 35
Morning Walk 36
Atlases 37
The Box 38
Squabbles on the Towpath 39
Second Sunrise 40
Late September 41
The Medium 42
The Blue Peacock 43
Voyager 2 44
Our Autumn 45
Feet 46
Beyond Real 47
What have I done? 48
Social Media 49
Storm 50
The Sinking Ship 51
Loving Venice 52
Winter Walking 53
Life Renewed 54
The Missing Muse 55
Hoots in Boots 57
The Internet 58
Are You In My Bubble? 59
Tomorrow 60
Uncertain 61
Falling 62
Poor Kettle 63
To Everything I Own 64
Index of Titles 65
Index of First Lines 68
Imprint
All rights of distribution, also through movies, radio and television, photomechanical reproduction, sound carrier, electronic medium and reprinting in excerpts are reserved.
© 2023 novum publishing
ISBN print edition: 978-3-99131-754-8
ISBN e-book: 978-3-99131-755-5
Editor: Atarah Yarach, DipEdit
Cover images: Sergey Kolesnikov, Meinzahn, Elen33, Denys Bilytskyi | Dreamstime.com
Cover design, layout & typesetting:novum publishing
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Acknowledgements
The following poems were first published in various editions of “The Cannon’s Mouth”, the quarterly anthology of Cannon Poets. They are reproduced here by kind permission.
“Second Sunrise”, “Tomorrow”, “What Have I Done?”,“Orpheus and Eurydice”,and“Winter Walking”
Introduction
It is four years since the publication of my first collection, “Late Starter”, and I seem to have collected many more poems, so perhaps it is time for another.
As befits my advancing years, this one is something of a biography, with chronological and meteorological additions. It begins with memories of my boyhood and culminates in contemplations of a very happy and surprisingly active old age. Threaded through the content, the theme of time is recorded by reference to months and seasons, between which a number of notable national events are recorded. The COVID pandemic (2020-2022, and ongoing, though hopefully not for much longer) seemed at first to be a time of isolation, but in fact became a time of national and international online meetings with people from places we would not have dreamed of visiting, stimulating almost more inspirations for poetry than in the preceding busy, mobile years.
At the same time, groups of poets met online, and this collection owes much to the example and guidance of members of Cannon Poets of Birmingham, the neighbouring Solihull Writers Workshop, and Leicestershire’s Brightsparks Arts, to say nothing of the enthusiastic support of Midlands Poets Laureate, in particular Charlie Jordan. Hence, from time to time, poems appear here in various arcane structures from haiku and tanka to sestina and rondeau redouble, and almost everything between. Rhyming patterns, lay-outs, and stanza- and line-lengths vary, as a result of my having been encouraged to play with words and “see what came out.” The reader must judge their success. For me, they provide more pleasure than crossword puzzles or Wordle, but each to their own.
No one enjoys every poem in a collection equally, but hopefully everyone may find something in this one which they can enjoy, perhaps remember (if only in part), or something which makes them recall a similar experience of their own, and perhaps begin to write themselves for their own pleasure, and that of others.
Robert Ferguson,
Spring 2022.
Earthquake in Peterborough
We had an earthquake last night. In Peterborough.
Never heard of Peterborough? Not surprised.
Not much ever happens here, you may be sure.
Some people go through it, quickly, in trains
From London to Scotland or the other way on.
It stands here with the flat Fens on one side
And the low Midland hills on the other.
Not the place for an earthquake, you’d say.
Not that my Mum or Dad, or I, noticed it happening,
Only, Miss Tweddle our teacher said it had,
